Abstract
The aim of this study is to identify common factors which influence health-related lifestyles of community-dwelling elderly persons in Korea and Japan, in order to obtain basic data on development of East Asian health promotion model. Concretely, this study considered the effects of health-related commitment and health-related self-efficacy on health-related lifestyles, after assuming the same model for community-dwelling elderly persons in Korea and Japan. For this research, an unsigned survey was conducted with 500 community-dwelling old adults each registered in the senior citizen support center in B City, A Prefecture, Japan, and in the senior citizen welfare facility in B City, A Province, Korea. For statistical analysis, among the collected questionnaires, data from 182 Japanese aged people and 214 Korean aged people who had no flaws in analysis items, were employed. According to the analysis by structural equitation modeling, both of Korean and Japanese aged people had high self-efficacy in health care, as they highly perceived health-related commitment, and continued to practice health lifestyles, as they highly perceive self-efficacy. This result implies that there is a necessity of implementing health education which lays emphasis on an intervention into health-related commitment and self-efficacy in health care, for making the elderly keep health-related lifestyles.
